Tephrosia Clementii
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''Tephrosia clementii'' is a
plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
species, endemic to the north-west of
Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
. It is an annual with a prostrate, spreading habit, growing to between 0.1 and 0.25 metres high. Orange or red flowers are produced between January and March in the species' native range. The species was first formally described by S.A.Skan in 1903 in ''
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'', from a collection by
Emile Clement Emile Louis Bruno Clement (1844–1928) was a prominent collector of ethnographic artefacts and natural history specimens from northwest Australia at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Biography Emile Clement was born in ...
between the Ashburton and
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Rivers.


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clementii Rosids of Western Australia {{Australia-rosid-stub